The Government of Lithuania has warned this Thursday that it contemplates possible "hostile actions" by Russia and, in view of this scenario, has ordered the Security Service to intensify the protection of the country's strategic centers, leaving open the option of involving the Armed Forces if the situation so requires.
"It cannot be ruled out that, in order to increase tensions in the region, Russia is planning hostile actions or provocations against facilities in the Baltic countries," stated the Minister of the Interior, Vladislav Kondratovich.
The Ministry of the Interior, in coordination with the Security Service, will deploy new measures to raise the security level in critical infrastructures and key national strategic points, in a context marked by an increase in incidents in the Baltic region linked to the war in Ukraine.
In recent months, the detection of Ukrainian drones in the airspace of the Baltic countries or Finland, which would have been diverted by Russia, has become common. In Estonia, a few weeks ago, a Romanian fighter jet integrated into NATO's air policing mission in the area shot down one of these devices.
Approximately one month ago, Russia accused Latvia of allowing Ukraine to use its territory to launch drone attacks, something that both Riga and Kyiv have rejected. Along these lines, the note released this Thursday by the Lithuanian Ministry of the Interior emphasizes that these are "unfounded accusations" with which Moscow would seek to legitimize eventual retaliatory actions.
"This increasingly aggressive rhetoric aims to divert attention from failures on the front and affect the determination of Ukraine's allies to continue providing support," Interior stated in its communiqué.